Home / States / North Carolina / Swain County Sheriff's Office
Swain County Sheriff's Office
County agency in Swain, North Carolina. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2019.
- ORI
- NC0870000
- Type
- County
- County
- Swain
- State
- North Carolina
- FBI reporting
- Reporting since 2019-01-01
- Location
- 35.5688, -83.4656
Workforce
As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 12,387.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | 18 | 12,387 | 3.96 |
| 2024 | 28 | 12 | 12,459 | 3.21 |
| 2023 | 30 | 13 | 12,401 | 3.47 |
| 2022 | 30 | 12 | 12,813 | 3.28 |
| 2021 | 30 | 16 | 12,535 | 3.67 |
| 2020 | 30 | 22 | 12,847 | 4.05 |
| 2019 | 28 | 20 | 12,814 | 3.75 |
| 2018 | 28 | 20 | 12,880 | 3.73 |
| 2017 | 27 | 19 | 12,978 | 3.54 |
| 2016 | 27 | 20 | 13,060 | 3.60 |
| 2015 | 24 | 21 | 12,903 | 3.49 |
| 2014 | 27 | 20 | 12,680 | 3.71 |
Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.
Also policing Swain
Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.
Source
Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record NC0870000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.